James Joyner notes the relative dearth of political blogs among the top sites in the blogosphere. Many technology blogs, on the other hand, and perhaps not surprisingly, are near the top. According to Technorati, HuffingtonPost still reigns at No. 1......

Another factor: the big political blogs that have a community have long since turned into echo-chambers. The in-depth discussions of policy are gone and have been replaced by (insert daily attack rant here) blogging and commentary. Yawn. I haven't visited Kos or RedState in weeks now - every time I do visit it is just more of the same, read them once and why bother going back to read the exact same attack-their-side/fawn-on-our side drivel yet again? Political blogs need to wake the hell up that everyone except the hardliners on either side have lost interest in partisan sniping with no substance.

Heh. Yeah, that does suggest a certain shelf-life, for such blogs, doesn't it?

You'd think so, but we just got a new iPhone, and developer alphas of Windows 7 are on their way, so there's plenty of fresh fodder.

And if you consider 871 "multi thousands",

Heh. Sorry. Monthly, I meant.

I wonder how much of that growth can be directly attributed to posts complaining about Vista, and praising the iPhone?

Heh. Yeah, that does suggest a certain shelf-life, for such blogs, doesn't it?

If you alone account for the weekly multi thousands worth of increase, lemme tell ya... I want you nowhere near a voting machine. (grin)

And if you consider 871 "multi thousands", I don't want you anywhere near the vote counting.

Uh huh. That makes more sense. It's just that these others are growing FASTER.

I wonder how much of that growth can be directly attributed to posts complaining about Vista, and praising the iPhone?

Your traffic seems to be coming mostly from Memeorandum, RealClear Politics, and Google Image search

Today, yes... but that vaires. And therein lies the point; there is no one particular aspect I can name that provides what I've been seeing.

I visited your site a couple of times, perhaps that accounts for the increase?

If you alone account for the weekly multi thousands worth of increase, lemme tell ya... I want you nowhere near a voting machine. (grin)

Seriously, I don't understand the reported drop, in light of both my own experience and that of others. Example, James, your site seems to be holding rather steady on month over month basis for the last year or so. Q&O has, as well, i note.

But the post is about the relative share of the traffic and links enjoyed by the political blogs vice their tech and entertainment counterparts

Uh huh. That makes more sense. It's just that these others are growing FASTER. Interesting how the turn of a phase will change utterly, the perception.

You probably don't visit SlashDot, then--its the Linux proponents you have to watch out for!

Isn't that what he was talking about? Linux on Apple hardware, or Linux on PC hardware? Seriously though, we can't help it if our operating system is better than yours.

So why is my site traffic through the roof the last few months, then?

I visited your site a couple of times, perhaps that accounts for the increase?

And discussions of gadgetry and whatnot don’t bifurcate along party lines (unless you count the Apple/PC feud).

You probably don't visit SlashDot, then--its the Linux proponents you have to watch out for!

So why is my site traffic through the roof the last few months, then?

Dunno. Your traffic seems to be coming mostly from Memeorandum, RealClear Politics, and Google Image search. Maybe you're being indexed better than you used to? Or writing about things that are more likely to show up there?

But the post is about the relative share of the traffic and links enjoyed by the political blogs vice their tech and entertainment counterparts.

Anicdotal, of course, but...